We don’t learn. Trump is a lolcow. He generates outrage over absurdity to gain media leverage. This recent media cycle is not an accident and I am disappointed that we didn’t learn our lesson the first decade of this.
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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And we spent 8 years trying to educate people. Anyone at this point who is pro trump literally cannot be convinced to vote for their own self interests until they are harmed.
Not just "until they are harmed" but "until they are directly harmed." I'm convinced at this point that unless Trump himself personally comes to their homes and executes them, they'd blame prices, immigration, illness, etc. on something else.
i think you’re on the right track but all these descriptions are a bit oversimplified
they are a tiny minority, but the case of Dearborn-Palestinian families shows how someone who is being directly harmed can even be encouraged to vote against their self interest. as someone else said in this post, Americans are voting for emotion, not candidates or even policies really.
Every election cycle there are a non zero number of voters who switch from red to blue so your assertion is false. But if you want to be doomerist and accelerationist and boring “literally cannot be reached” I can’t stop you